How did the old, broken down Spurs win 67 games the same year Warriors won 73?

[eliteballer]

One team winning more than 62 games in a year is pretty rare.

There's a handful of teams that have won more than 64 games in NBA HISTORY.

Let alone an old team resting key guys for half the season.

Two teams managed to do it in the same conference/year.

Anyone know?

[Celtics 1825]

Real talk though that team flies under the radar hard just because of how good the Warriors were that year.

[Manny98]

Kawhi and Aldridge = old and broken down?

Kill yourself retard

[RRR3]

Greg “Gandalf” Popovich.

But they had a good team regardless. Kawhi is a stud and they had Aldridge plus tons of good role players.

[3ball]

This is why the Finals comp argument holds no water

In 2016 or 2017 - Lebron, Kyrie and Love should've been flirting with 70 wins just like the old Spurs did, but instead they're praised for losing more and being the underdog

In reality they should've won 65-70 and had a clash of the titans in the Finals, like the 80's Lakers/Celtics... But instead it was billed as this huge mismatch and lebron got sympathy as the underdog, while his goat argument was wrongly inflated.. but now the inflated bubble burst this year and people see the folly of that thinking

[Uncle Drew]

Wait, so the Cavaliers didn't just beat a 73 win team, but indirectly bested a 67 win team as well? Greatest. Championship. Ever.

[RRR3]

Wait, so the Cavaliers didn't just beat a 73 win team, but indirectly bested a 67 win team as well? Greatest. Championship. Ever.
LeJesus :bowdown:

[RRR3]

This is why the Finals comp argument holds no water

In 2016 or 2017 - Lebron, Kyrie and Love should've been flirting with 70 wins just like the old Spurs did, but instead they're praised for losing more and being the underdog

In reality they should've won 65-70 and had a clash of the titans in the Finals, like the 80's Lakers/Celtics... But instead it was billed as this huge mismatch and lebron got sympathy as the underdog, while his goat argument was wrongly inflated.. but now the inflated bubble burst this year and people see the folly of that thinking
Harden is having a better scoring season than MJ ever did.

[3ball]

Wait, so the Cavaliers didn't just beat a 73 win team, but indirectly bested a 67 win team as well? Greatest. Championship. Ever.
That's what happens when you have an equal scoring partner and closer at 2nd option, literally a legendary performance for a 2nd option, which has never happened before

[tpols]

the spurs are really good at having good basketball teams.

[Uncle Drew]

That's what happens when you have an equal scoring partner and closer at 2nd option, literally a legendary performance for a 2nd option, which has never happened before
Three years later, still fuming. Greatest championships in the history of sports, how you feel?

[RRR3]

That's what happens when you have an equal scoring partner and closer at 2nd option, literally a legendary performance for a 2nd option, which has never happened before
Considering defense, it’s nowhere near as good as Pippen during the first 3Peat.

[3ball]

Harden is having a better scoring season than MJ ever did.
The entire league is scoring more on better efficiency than ever before - record ortg and efg

So MJ's was much tougher and the better performance. He also scored in far more ways (much more than just ball-domination), so he ultimately built dynasties, while Harden can't build a conference finals winner

[FKAri]

That's what happens when you have an equal scoring partner and closer at 2nd option, literally a legendary performance for a 2nd option, which has never happened before
So LeBatman also gets his sidekick to produce better than anyone ever? :eek:

[eliteballer]

Wait, so the Cavaliers didn't just beat a 73 win team, but indirectly bested a 67 win team as well? Greatest. Championship. Ever.

Let's not forget what happened the last time LeBron played the Spurs in the Finals:kobe:

[4pointshot]

The Spurs lost their first game that season, and a couple more while the Warriors were winning twenty-four straight. After that, they pretty much matched the Warriors win for win till near the end of the season, when the Spurs weren't going to get the no. 1 seed, and Pop rested some players. The Spurs also had a better PD than the Warriors until the very end. They tied an NBA record in losing only one game at home.

Then after sweeping the first round and blowing out the Thunder in Game 1 of the second round, the Spurs lost 4/5. That was clearly the season that should have taught people the folly of small sample size. OKC was better than the Spurs? Almost eliminated the Warriors? A sub-60 win Cleveland team beats the Warriors in the Finals?

[3ball]

So LeBatman also gets his sidekick to produce better than anyone ever? :eek:


Well kyrie is a great shooter - and we all know lebron "needs" shooters, which is a glaring weakness in skills that limits team ceiling

The facts that he needs the ball in his hands is a skill weakness compared to other greats and ultimately explains why his teams never developed the top brand of ball, offenses or teams of his era.. Consequently, they were normally underdogs on the championship level and never dynasties

otoh, guys like Bird, MJ, Kobe, Duncan, etc had skill without the ball in their hands, thereby fitting with more player types and having better teamwork for a better team